The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-26
THE DODGE MAN OUTDONE.
Newt Vorce, a Typical Desperate of
the Frontier

Newt Vorce, a Typical Desperate of
the Frontier
DenUer Dispatch to 81. Joseph (hO) Gazette.
A typical border desperate is flourishing
at Deer Trail, fifty-flve miles east of here, on
the Kansas and Pacific Railroad. Deputy
sheriffs from Denver have gone out to cap
ture him, and came back with blanched
| faces and trembling hearts. The cattlemen
of the neighborhood, who suffer daily by
! his depredations, are seriously think
ing of taking the law into their
! own hands, and they are loud
in denunciation of the Arapahoe county au-
thorities, who, they say, are afraid to tackle
the man. The fellow is an escaped convict
named Newt Norce He has been in Colo
! RADIO for ten or twelve years, but nobody
knows where he came from. For the last
four or five years he has worked for the cat
tlemen around Deer Trail. His last en-
| ployers were the Mill Iron Cattle Company
of this place, who have a large horse ranch
some distance from Deer Trail Newt,
| who is about 81 years of age, and rather
good-looking man, had no particularly
bad habits when he first appeared in the
| country.
He would get drunk once in awhile, and
had a playful way of shooting at his fellow
mems feet when he wanted to make them
dance. Many a cowboy has executed
Highland hornpipe to the music of Nevis
| revolver. Otherwise he was a nice, pleas
ant sort of a companion, goOd-hearted,
agreeable and hard working. He got along
very well until grass widow, who owns a
house and some horses and sheep within 100
yards of the Deer Trail Station, won his af
fections. Then he drank all the more and
turned his revOlvers loose more freely when
he felt himself yearning for a cowhide boot
ballet. The woman helped to keep him
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miles at night and get back to his range by
daylight next morning. He became nui-
sance, and twice the Mill Iron Cattle Com
pany discharged him. Last fall he nearly
killed an old cattleman named Gallagher,
smashing him over the head with a bottle in
George Hodges saloon. The blow felled
Gallagher, when Vorce began jumping upon
him, and afterward shooting promiscuously
around the saloon.
The crowd, of course, broke for the door
and got outside One of the boys, drawer
than the rest, poked his rife through the
door, pushed it open and, covering VOrce,
made him throw up his hands. They de
termined to arrest him. He surrendered,
but on leaving the saloon ran among
lot of railroad men and began firing.
His pursuers followed and again cap
tured him. He was brought to Denver
and tried for an aggravated assault, and
convicted and sentenced to nine months
in the county Jail. He served several
months, when he made his escape and re-
turned to Deer Trail, where he has been
ever since. He has seven stolen horses
staked out, and almost daily breaks open
stable locks and kicks in cabin doors and
does some stealing. He hides in the ravines
around Deer Trail during the day. the grass
widow and her little girl carrying him his
meals. At night he usually sleeps in the
widows house He has been at large for
81 m
longer his capture is delayed. He has
brace of revolvers and a Winchester, and
has given out time and again that he will
never be taken alive
The woman watches every train that
stops at Deer Trail, and if a stranger gets
off she jumps on horse, rides to the town,
and asCertainS if he is an officer of the law,
or il he is after Newt. A few weeks ago
Capt. Burrows and another Sheriff deputy
went to Deer Trail and surprised Newt in
the widows house. They covered him
with revolvers, but instead of throw
| ing up his hands as they ordered
he opened fire on them and got away
| They came to Denver empty-handed
and no further attempt has been made to
| capture him. The cowboys sometimes ride
over hill to be alarmed by a threatening
| Winchester and the cry Hands up, )" but
| Newt lowers his weapon when sees who they
| are and they pass along and leave him in his
| Shelterlng raVlne. Dave j. Cook, the Rocky
Mountain detective asks $500 to effect his
capture, and says he will not go after him
unless he has warrant, as he expects to
| have to kill him.
| The saloon in which Newt assaulted Gal
| lagher was recently acquired by George
| Hodge, an ex-State Representative, under a
| mortgage foreclosure Twelve men have
been killed in it, and there isn't part of the
wall to which finger may be pointed that
h1Ill hnl Nm
derer Wilson, who shot a Sheriff
at Trinidad, and was afterward shot
and killed by detectives in a neighbor-
| ing county, was in the habit of snuffing
ont the lights with his revolver and making
| the habitues of the place "hide outn-that
| is, getting OUT of range of the bullets which
he sprinkled through the room in the dark
ness Popping out the lights and making
the customers hide out is a favorite amuse-
ment of the bad men who drink at Hodges
bar and the record of their pastimes is pre-
scented in the abundance of bullet holes in
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